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Mistral Small 3 pricing

Cheapest host: DeepInfra · checked Oct 26, 2026
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$0.05 / $0.08per 1M tokens in / out
#187on OpenRouter by tokens · 12.4B / week

Price sheetper 1M tokens

Input$0.05DeepInfra
Output$0.08
Context · max output32K · 16Ktokens

Where to buy2 providers · per 1M tokens

ProviderInputOutputContext
DeepInfra$0.05$0.08—
Featherless$0.17$0.29—

In Mistral's line-upper 1M in / out

Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3$0.028 / $0.054−40%
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.1$0.055 / $0.055−4%
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2$0.055 / $0.055−4%
Mistral Small 3$0.05 / $0.08this model
Ministral 3 3B 2512$0.10 / $0.10+74%
Ministral 3 8B 2512$0.15 / $0.152.6×
Mistral Nemo$0.15 / $0.152.6×
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Cheaper for the same workvs Mistral Small 3

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning thinkingOpen-15%score +93%$0.079
GPT OSS 20B lowOpen-37%score +49%$0.018 / $0.09
Granite 4.2 3B thinkingOpen-9%score +36%$0.006
Gemma 4 E4B thinkingOpen-30%score +34%$0.008
Qwen3.5 2B thinkingOpen-30%same score$0.02 / $0.10

Pricing questions

How much does Mistral Small 3 cost?›

$0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.08 per 1M output tokens.

Is Mistral Small 3 free to use?›

There is no free API tier, but the weights are open: you can run it on your own hardware for the cost of compute.

What is a cheaper alternative to Mistral Small 3?›

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning at thinking effort costs -15% per task with a score +93% on Humanity's Last Exam.